re: AMC's Halt and catch fire so underrated

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Don’t forget that the GOAT TV superhero.

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Better than The Whiz?

My most memorable scene from the series was when the teen daughter, Haley, gets a crush on the older cool barista girl and musters up the courage to ask her out.

The way they shot it, they only suggested what Haley was going to do, but it was clear from the circumstances, and you didn't see the actual interaction. But it was heart breaking when Haley walked out of the shop in tears.

It was almost like a silent movie. They delivered a powerful scene with no dialog at all.

SPOILERS -- maybe?

Toward the end it got a little ridiculous the way that this small group of people from Texas ended up on the forefront of so many tech breakthroughs during that time

I watched the first two seasons and thought the second was light years better than the first. I thought the show would be about ballsy Texas entrepreneurs in the early days of PCs. Not about a con man steering a business aground.
The second season was more about that.
I need to go back and finish the series. Maybe after I'm done with Broadchurch.

Great character development from start to finish. One of my top series of the last decade. Not sure about the scene where Joe unexpectedly pipes that bro because he can lol. Loved the Gordon character. It kind of hurts me that these aren’t real people, that’s how much I liked it.

I love the show to death, and what I really love about it is that they allow each character to be a villain. Joe obviously has the most heel turns, but Donna basically destroys her own daughter's company, Cameron sabotages her own game by making it appeal to about five people, and Gordon... Jesus, poor Gordon.

Gordon is perhaps the greatest character in TV history. He is a near bundle of character flaws, and the show begins with his wife bailing him out of jail for being a drunk. But here's the thing: Gordon is punished for every one of his sins completely out of proportion to his culpability. He feels the world is unfairly out to get him and, well, he's kind of right. He's the one character that no one seems to ever let him forget the times he screwed up. He's never allowed to move past, even as he's the one who holds Mutiny together through his tireless hardware work (software is sexier, but Gordon made the stuff that it works on).

And despite all this, by the end of Season 4, he's finally happy. His wife has left him, his brother has rejected him, his ex in-laws have huilated him, his business partners have repeatedly screwed him over, he has a terminal disease... but he gets off the mat and finds joy in making a company with his daughter, just for fun. He doesn't care about money anymore, just joy. A guy who was crapped on my the TV gods for 4 straight seasons was somehow the happiest in the final season, as he tried to make himself into a better person, and a better father.

He dies doing two things he loved: starting over from scratch (the whiteboard scene is beautiful) but more importantly, fixing things with his hands. He fixed the AC. Ironically, it was that work with his hands which killed hm.

The episode AFTER he dies shows the hole he left, and no other character had that kind of impact on everyone. Gordon was a hero, and no one realized it for his whole life... not even Gordon.

I am on season 3 and can’t stop. Season 1 is slow, but I read it gets better and better each season. It certainly does.

AMC has great shows with Halt, Turn, Hap and Leonard.